Cardioceratidae | |
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Cardioceras persecans from France | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Superfamily: | † Stephanoceratoidea |
Family: | †
Cardioceratidae Siemiradzki, 1891 |
Genera [1] | |
Cardioceratidae is an extinct ammonite family belonging to the superfamily Stephanoceratoidea. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Middle- Late Jurassic periods. [2]